28th Jul, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST
Bryden (Robert). Some Woodcuts of Men of Letters of the 19th Century, London: J. M. Dent & Co., [1899]. Atlas folio (585 x 455 mm), woodcut title-leaf in red and black, 10 woodcut portraits each with integral captioned tissue-guard (of 12: without the portraits of John Ruskin and Walt Whitman), all loose as issued in original cloth portfolio, printed label mounted to front, together with: Dulac (Edmond). Stories from the Arabian Nights. Retold by Laurence Housman, 1st edition, trade issue, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1907. 4to, original decorative orange cloth gilt, 50 tipped-in colour plates spotting to early text-leaves, crude repair to gutter between pp. xvi and 1 (qty: 2) The portraits remaining in this copy of Bryden's work depict Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle, William Morris, Henrik Ibsen, Leo Tolstoy, R. L. Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, and Victor Hugo.
Sold for £220
Estimated at £100 - £150
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 28th Jul, 2021
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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